We are delighted to have this specimen on display, which gives visitors a unique opportunity to examine the fossilised skeleton of the first meateating dinosaur found in Wales, and one of the oldest Jurassic dinosaur in the world.

The study was conducted by an international team of researchers, including Vandana Prasad of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow, India, who studied the dinosaur coprolites, or fossilised dung.

The rare find at the ancestral home of the Duke of Northumberland was made on an area of overgrown rockery by gardener Ms Anita Milewczyk, who recognised traces of fossilised bark on what appeared to be a piece of rock.

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